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Henry Ford. Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism.
Fordlândia. / 3.83139°S 55.49750°W / -3.83139; -55.49750. Fordlândia ( Portuguese pronunciation: [fɔʁdʒiˈlɐ̃dʒjɐ], Ford-land) is a district and adjacent area of 14,268 square kilometres (5,509 sq mi) in the city of Aveiro, in the Brazilian state of Pará. It is located on the east banks of the Tapajós river roughly 300 ...
69000071. Significant dates. Added to NRHP. October 20, 1969 [1] Designated NHLD. December 21, 1981 [2] The Henry Ford (also known as the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and Greenfield Village, and as the Edison Institute) is a history museum complex in Dearborn, Michigan, United States, within Metro Detroit.
You can also count Henry Ford III — great-great grandson and namesake of the patriarch of the automaking family that brought the Model T to life at Ford's Piquette Avenue Plant 115 years ago ...
Henry Ford II [13] September 21, 1945. November 9, 1960. 6. Robert McNamara [13] November 9, 1960. January 1, 1961. The first non-Ford family member to be president. Left to become Secretary of Defense after just two months.
Ford family. The Ford family is an American family from the U.S. state of Michigan. They are best known for their control of the Ford Motor Company automobile manufacturer which was originally founded by Henry Ford in the early twentieth century. Henry's grandson William Clay Ford Sr. and his family have controlled the Detroit Lions franchise ...
The section also contains spotlights on the completed elements of the plan--the Veterans Memorial Building, City-County Building, and Henry and Edsel Ford Auditorium. There is a portion connecting the need for underground parking in the Civic Center with the new expressways leading to downtown.
The Dearborn Independent. The Dearborn Independent, also known as The Ford International Weekly, was a weekly newspaper established in 1901, and published by Henry Ford from 1919 through 1927. The paper reached a circulation of 900,000 by 1925, second only to the New York Daily News, largely due to a quota system for promotion imposed on Ford ...